It's beautiful
It's beautiful
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I'm a huge keyboard shortcut guy. But any more than two modifiers can fuck right off. I wanna launch a program, not play carpel tunnel Twister.
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That's the point, they are this long on purpose so that you never actually press them by accident, and never conflict with any other shortcut someone would use. They exist for custom keyboards that have an "Office" or "Copilot" button. The special key then sends that shortcut.
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Good ol "hyper key", Ctrl+Shift+Super+Alt
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No one:
Absolutely no one ever:
Microsoft: Hey guys....
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insert logan paul dead man scene, where logan paul says " i think thats a dead person there" or whatever the lung emoji was the quote
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It’s part of the registry and cannot be reprogrammed without essentially bricking your system
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There's a way to disable the shortcuts so they can be remapped: https://github.com/midrare/hyperenable
It basically runs and creates the same global hotkeys as explorer.exe would for those Office ones, but it does so right before explorer launches so it can't assign them anymore. After that, the program disables them so you're free to use the hotkeys for other programs.
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Anyone have any idea why it was programmed in?
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Ctrl + shift + alt + win + any letter opens office apps
- W - Word
- P - PowerPoint
- T - teams
- N - OneNote
...etc
LinkedIn just happens to be L. If there isn't an app installed (or available) it'll just open in your browser.
I actually found these a few years ago when I decided to press every modifier letter combination. Back then it wasn't documented anywhere but I've seen it pop up a few times in the last month so somebody must've found and shared it recently
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I already know that. What I asked is if someone knows why Microsoft added those shortcuts.
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Can I map excel to blah blah blah -e somehow?
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I think it was Thor from Pirate Gaming.
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I believe this is so they can make keyboards with a fancy "LinkedIn Button" on them, just like they're trying to do now with Copilot.
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My guess is it caters to "windows power users" that like to be the ones to point these obscure shortcuts to other people.
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Microsoft owns part of LinkedIn.
Vertical integration.
Just be haply you don't have a Facebook button. Yet.
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Probably done to support a meta-key on a keyboard where a manufacturer wanted a dedicated LinkedIn button.
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That, and Linkedin is wholly owned by Microsoft.
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granted. it now sets edge as default and then opens linkedin in your default browser.
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You guys never ragequit a game by slamming your hand into the keyboard? Opens up almost every Office program at the same time, it's glorious!
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Thanks, I hate it
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WHAT THE FUCK
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Is it possible to open lemmy instead
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WORKS IN FIREFOX GUYS
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Are you fucking kidding me? This is the best most useless information I've learned in a while
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Default browser?
You mean Edge?
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WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK
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wtf
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No surprise when they own LinkedIn
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And now it's two clicks to open the property menu in explorer and takes half a second to switch windows
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Alt+enter insta-opens properties.
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Hold shift while right clicking to bring up the old menu. I got used to it now (sigh)
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Motherfucker.
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I thought this was a trick to get Windows users to nuke their system or something...
Nope, it actually opens LinkedIn.
"Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win+W" opens Word in a browser
"Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win+T" opens Teams in a browser
"Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win+X" opens Excel in a browser
"Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win+P" opens Powerpoint in a browser
"Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win+O" opens
Outlook in a browserthe locally installed Outlook programClassic Microsoft.
It's because the surface book added an Office button which was just a macro for Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win
More recently, "LShift+Win+F23" opens Copilot
That's insane considering 99% of users have never heard of F23 and the ones who know use a separate shortcut to activate it. I've never seen a keyboard with all 24 function keys.
That's bullshit. F13-F36 should be reserved for user macros and remain unused by default in user applications.
Tom Scott says: "then, it presses the F24 key." https://youtu.be/lIFE7h3m40U?t=986
OK, now I'm just going to try Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win+Every-Key-On-The-Keyboard just to see what happens.
I bet there's a registry key that let's you remap P to Pornhub.
Report back.
I've got Office 365 installed so the shortcuts open those local applications.